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CarveWright

Mugsowner, thanks. Finished tweaking and ready to load up the card. I thought the fingers were a little high so lowered and angled them slightly different. Carving the columns in maple and the rest of the clock in Mahogany. Should be pretty. May try to start it tomorrow.

Included a quick color render for fun.

For the blender users: The dragon body is a single scale that I used 3 arrays to duplicate and then curved around a circle to get the curvature to simulate a cylindrical body. I then applied a second curvature to simulate the curvature around the column. The dragon head was sculpted. The horns were single simple cylinder with loop cuts and sized proportionally and then duplicated, angled and rotated 180 degree for opposing side. The claws hands are a single finger duplicated and resized similarly.

Some progress. Got two of the patterns carved for the clock. The columns still need a bit of sanding. I screwed up the height (didn't plane the lumber to the pattern height and allowed the machine to carve to the measured height...which it didn't carve deep enough). So had to go to the band saw. Not a big deal but an extra step.

The dragon column looks sharp with the maple over the mahogany. Can't wait for the oil application to see what it really looks like. Its always magic.

And the dragon pillar came out really cool. The picture doesn't do it justice.

I wish I could get motivated to start learning z-brush. It was built for stuff like this. My problem is, Blender just keeps getting better and better and I keep delving into different areas of it. I've started trying to learn animation now.

The discussion thread on snowflakes got me thinking on how to do it on blender. Again super easy and quick using mirror and also duplicate and rotate to get the same pattern around a circle. Under five minutes each from start to CW pattern.

Recommend shallow carves of .125 with some draft on the first snowflake due to the thin material.